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314:, and looks for the real culprit. But in total opposition to the conventional ending of a detective story - i.e, the detective solving the mystery and triumphantly apprehending the culprit - 'God in Bowl' ends with the forces of law and order totally routed, detective and constables fleeing the scene in panic. The stage is left to the clash of primeval forces, the barbarian from the north against the sinister magic from the south. The outcome is entirely due to Conan's sword-arm. The laws and criminal procedures of the surrounding city and kingdom are effectively nullified." (Ward probably meant Demetrio, not Dionus, given the roles played by both characters in the story. Demetrio plays the more rational and evidence-oriented authority.) 374:
disliked the priest enough to spend considerable effort to try to kill him. Howard never made much more of Ibis in the rest of the canonical Conan stories, leaving him an obscure feature of the Hyborian age. Some writers of future Conan stories give Ibis a more prominent role. In particular, the plot
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While the magistrate and his men are baffled when uncovering this information, it turns out the murderer may have been non-human and was contained within the now-opened sarcophagus. A scream forces the police to retreat, leaving Conan to fend for himself with the roaming murderer. Conan locates the
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which now lies unsealed, open, and empty. This sarcophagus is a priceless relic found among the tombs beneath the Stygian pyramids and sent to Kalanthes of Hanumar, Priest of Ibis, "because of the love which the sender bore the priest of Ibis". Intercepting this item meant for Kalanthes, Publico
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of police, Dionus, show forbearance. The two allow Conan to remain free and keep his unsheathed sword while their men search the premises. A combination of Conan's physique, his glare, and his insistence that he'll disembowel the first person who tried to apprehend him keeps the guards at bay.
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The watchman stood in a vast corridor lighted by huge candles set in niches along the walls. Between the niches, these walls were covered with black velvet wall-hangings, and between the hangings hung shields and crossed weapons of fantastic
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Arus stood in a vast corridor, lighted by huge candles in nitches along the walls. These walls were hung with black velvet tapestries, and between the tapestries hung shields and crossed weapons of fantastic
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Purists decry De Camp's editorial work on both this and other Howard Conan stories. He reportedly substantially altered and rewrote whole sections, often to include references to his own work.
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Many of de Camp's edits were slight. They have been characterized as technically correct and more precise but at the expense of losing some of the richness and energy of Howard's original.
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for publication, and this edited version was the first version to see print. Several other differently-edited versions followed. The unedited, original version was only printed in 2002 with
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Carson Ward, "Detective Stories with a Historical, Fantasy and Science Fiction Background" in Berry Sheridan (ed.) "Collected Essays on the Development of Crime Fiction", London 1989
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takes up in detail thousands of years' of the history of Ibis and his priesthood, and their hereditary conflict with the Stygian priests and gods.
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The story introduces the god Ibis and his priest, Kalanthes of Hanumar, but little is told of them besides the fact the Stygian sorcerer
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While robbing the museum, Conan becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. The strangled corpse of the temple's owner and
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As his investigation unfolds, the magistrate learns from Promero, Publico's clerk, that Publico had received from
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Here is an example of the differences in texts. The first is by Howard, the second by de Camp:
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This article is about a short story. For the protagonist and principal character, see
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in Howard's lifetime and only rediscovered in 1951. It was then edited by
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In the Nemedian municipality of Numalia, the second largest city of
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of the giant-kings. But the object held something more insidious.
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but not published during his lifetime. Set during the fictional
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The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle
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Carson Ward commented further: "A more fitting term would be
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Reprints of this story have appeared in the collections
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culprit, a giant serpent that he dispatches with his
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Works originally published in Space Science Fiction
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Index

Conan the Barbarian
Short story
Robert E. Howard
Fantasy
Space Science Fiction
Pulp magazine
Conan the Cimmerian

Mark Schultz
Del Rey
Robert E. Howard
Space Science Fiction
short stories
sword and sorcery
Conan the Cimmerian
Robert E. Howard
Hyborian Age
Space Science Fiction
Nemedia
curator
prefect
Stygia
sarcophagus
diadem
long sword
pulp magazine
Weird Tales
L. Sprague de Camp
Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932–1933)
Everett F. Bleiler

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